Political Quotes - Page 34

• The climate crisis is not a political issue; it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level.

  Al Gore

  Spiritual, Opportunity, Issues

  "Gore and UN panel are awarded Nobel Peace Prize". www.nytimes.com. October 12, 2007.

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• Economic distress, political pressure, and social obloquy already drive us from our homes and from our graves. The Jews are already constantly shifting from place to place.

  Theodor Herzl

  Home, Pressure, Shifting

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• Throughout the world, the family is increasingly under attack. If families fail, many of our political, economic, and social systems will also fail.

  Russell M. Nelson

  World, Failing, Economic

  "Salvation and Exaltation" by Russell M. Nelson, www.lds.org. April 2008.

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• The corniest movie ever made about the white man's need to lose his identity and assuage racial, political, sexual and historical guilt.

  Armond White

  Men, White, Historical

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• When it becomes serious, you have to lie.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Lying, Politics, Serious

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• The problem with politics isn't the money; it's the power.

  Harry Browne

  Problem

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• As always, imagine how great the press corps would be if it devoted 1/1000th the energy to dissecting non-sex political wrongdoing

  Glenn Greenwald

  Sex, Energy, Would Be

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• When I begin a book, I inevitably discover many things along the way, about the characters, their past histories and the political intrigues that surround them. This discovery process is vital, and I would not prejudice it by deciding too much in advance

  David Brin

  Book, Character, Past

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• I think as much as possible, an artist, if he has any kind of social or political concern, has to…expose as much as possible what he sees so that some people think about things that they don’t normally think about… [Art] should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.

  Keith Haring

  Art, Thinking, People

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• Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Relative Value, Confusion, Democracy

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• Another hallmark of Christianity is that salvation is not individualistic-it's not something one person receives for himself or herself. Salvation is the reign of God. It is a political alternative to the way the world is constituted. That's a very important part of the story that has been lost to accounts of salvation that are centered in the individual. But without an understanding that salvation is the reign of God, the need for the church to mediate salvation makes no sense at all.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  Understanding, Church, Important

  Stanley Hauerwas (2001). “The Hauerwas Reader”, p.533, Duke University Press

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• It is highly improbable that the bureaucrat will put his life on the line. It is absolutely impossible that he'll put his job on the line.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Jobs, Lines, Impossible

  Eduardo Galeano, Cedric Belfrage (1988). “Century of the Wind”, Pantheon Books

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• Too often our Washington reflex is to discover a problem and then throw money at it, hoping it will somehow go away.

  Kenneth Keating

  Going Away, Problem, Reflexes

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• The high-minded definition of politics is: 'the art or science of government; the art or science concerned with guiding or influencing governmental policy.' It is only when you keep reading in Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary that you get closer to the truth: 'political activities characterized by artful and often dishonest practices'.

  Cal Thomas

  Art, Reading, Government

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• Politicians are notoriously economically illiterate. And even when they know what would be the right thing, we don't really expect them to do it.

  Harry Browne

  Would Be, Politician, Illiterate

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• Bad policies, stupid policies, gutless policies have real consequences.

  Molly Ivins

  Real, Stupid, Policy

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• The politicians should not tell the people to shut up.

  John Stossel

  People, Shut Up, Politician

  "I Got Elected. You May Not Criticize Me" by John Stossel, www.realclearpolitics.com. November 2, 2005.

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• People who seek political power are, with exceptions too rare to matter, never to be trusted; at best, such people are vain and officious busybodies. People who actually achieve political power are to be trusted even less than those who seek it without success; winning elections requires a measure of deceitfulness and Machiavellian immorality that no decent person comes close to possessing.

  Donald J. Boudreaux

  Winning, People, Matter

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• No wonder politicians love government schools. Where do you think the dumb masses come from that can be so easily led and manipulated?

  Neal Boortz

  School, Thinking, Government

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• The personal qualities necessary for attaining office are practically the opposite of those demanded by the office itself. The trouble with the damn system is that it selects for the skills needed to get elected, and nothing else. A test that you can only pass by cheating can't possibly select honest people.

  James P. Hogan

  Cheating, Opposites, Skills

  James P. Hogan (1983). “Code of the Lifemaker”, Del Rey

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• It is truly a triumph of rhetoric over reality when people can believe that going into politics is 'public service,' but that producing food, shelter, transportation, or medical care is not.

  Thomas Sowell

  Believe, Reality, People

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• Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags.

  David Harsanyi

  Mysterious, Turns, Wells

  "The Libertarian Case for Palin" by David Harsanyi, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 2, 2008.

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• Serving in Congress is like having a second shot at high school.

  Barney Frank

  School, Congress, Shots

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• This Congress is out of control and in desperate need of adult supervision.

  Jeff Flake

  Adults, Needs, Desperate

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• The problem isn't the abuse of power; it's the power to abuse.

  Mike Cloud

  Abuse, Problem, Abuse Of Power

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